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A. Crime scene profiling
B. Confirmation profiling
C. Geographic profiling
D. Suspect-based profiling
A. How can the victim be profiled?
B. What type of punishment is the offender likely to receive?
C. What actions did the victim take that caused the crime?
D. Are there any other crimes that are likely to have been committed by the same person?
A. Confirmation profiling
B. Crime scene profiling
C. Psychological autopsy
D. Geographical profiling
A. True
B. False
A. Conducted by a team
B. Conducted by one individual
C. Illegal in most states
D. Illegal in all states
A. The Reid method
B. The Kassin model
C. Confrontational confession
D. Rational interviewing
A. Nomothetic
B. Predictive
C. Idiographic
D. Geographical
A. True
B. False
A. True
B. False
A. Known; tests and interviews
B. Intelligent; hunches and theories
C. Disordered; record review and legal evidence
D. Institutionalized; arrest reports and clues
A. Trans-situational consistency
B. Shyness
C. Confirmation
D. Nomothetic interaction
A. Factual competency
B. False confidence
C. Confirmation bias
D. Cognitive dissonance
A. Criminal cases involving violence
B. Personnel screening in government agencies
C. Selection of graduate school applicants at major universities
D. Early stages of criminal investigations
A. Recent research has revealed that interrogators are easier on adolescents than they are on adults.
B. Adolescents are often better equipped than adults to withstand the pressures of interrogation.
C. Recent research suggests that adolescents are more focused on future consequences than are adults.
D. Adolescents are prone to give false confessions due to their immaturity.
A. Photospread
B. Double-blind lineup
C. Show-up
D. Composite sketch
A. accusatorial approach
B. Physician
C. Child
D. None of these
A. True
B. False
A. None of these
B. Tender years doctrine
C. BIC standard
D. clinical predictions
A. All of these
B. Self-defense
C. Financial gain
D. Coerced-internalized false confessions
A. None of these
B. Coerced-compliant false confessions
C. How can the victim be profiled?
D. What actions did the victim take that caused the crime?
A. True
B. False
A. Crime scene profiling
B. None of these
C. Suspect-based profiling
D. Cognitive lie detection
A. False
B. True
A. All of these
B. The circumstances surrounding the shooting
C. Cognitive-behavioral viewpoint
D. Quality of the officer’s marital relationship.
A. None of these
B. General jurisdiction
C. Appellate jurisdiction
D. commitment bias
A. Guilty of the crime
B. composition bias
C. All of these
D. Open to rehabilitation
A. False
B. True
A. Crime and delinquency
B. Victimology and victim services
C. All of these
D. Control question technique (CQT)
A. crime scene profiling
B. Minor children
C. Incarcerated women
D. All of these
A. criminal investigative analysis
B. Be unemployed
C. None of these
D. Be unmarried
A. False
B. True
A. All of these
B. Forensic
C. double-blind lineup
D. Cognitive
A. Equivocal death analysis (EDA)
B. All of these
C. Homebuilders program
D. Teaching-family model
A. diplomate
B. Racial oppression
C. facial composites
D. None of these
A. True
B. False
A. geographical mapping
B. Political activists
C. Prisoners
D. All of these
A. None of these
B. Different types of antisocial behavior
C. Violent behavior in adult male forensic populations
D. geographical profiling
A. Guilty Knowledge Test (GKT)
B. The International Association of Forensic Psychologists
C. None of these
D. The Law and Psychiatry Association
A. False
B. True
A. Stranger abduction
B. Parental abduction
C. hypnotic trance theory
D. None of these
A. Early adulthood
B. HUMINT (HUManINTelligence) interrogation
C. All of these
D. Middle adulthood
A. Juvenile sex offenders
B. None of these
C. idiographic approach
D. Mental health providers
A. True
B. False
A. All of these
B. Perpetrators; victims
C. investigative psychology
D. Teachers; parents
A. linkage analysis
B. All of these
C. Are there any other crimes that are likely to have been committed by the same person?
D. How can the victim be profiled?
A. Modus operandi (MO)
B. Bench
C. Disposition
D. None of these
A. True
B. False
A. Relapse prevention
B. All of these
C. Cognitive behavioral therapy
D. non-hypnotic hypermnesia
A. None of these
B. Homebuilders program
C. Own-race bias (ORB)
D. Teaching-family model
A. All of these
B. Psychological autopsy
C. Photospread
D. Double-blind lineup